GS-I continued from the uploaded story. The setup, characters, and fin…

never done in that house.

I want to describe the grief accurately because I think people get it wrong. It was not that I stopped loving him. It was that every memory I owned went in for reinspection at the same time.

The trip to Gettysburg in 1996. The Christmas he cried at the table. The week he sat with my mother in hospice and did not leave.

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